Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Warfare and Society in Early Modern England.
A severe physical punishment used in the New Model Army where a red-hot iron was driven through the tongue of a soldier caught blaspheming.
Boring the Tongue appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Warfare and British Society and London WWII, especially Warfare and Society in Early Modern England and The Experience of War.
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